I was talking to Chris (one of the co-owners of Blowout) at the inaugural card show at the Blowout Fantastic Store this past Sunday.

I told him that I had an idea to catalog/index every autograph that can be hit in Bowman, Bowman Chrome, and Bowman Draft from 2005 - present.

I don't know about you, but I have been trying to sort out which players are in the various products for a long time now. Also, it's the worst when you are buying older product and hit a redemption that you weren't expecting. That's why this index will include the EXPIRED REDEMPTION label next to the autos you cannot redeem anymore.

Here is the first installment (2005-2009). I am planning on making each year its own post. I need to fill in some gaps (where you see "Need confirmation").

Send me a PM or post a reply if you have missing info, especially about which hits were redemptions!

I hope that everyone finds this helpful. If all of this information is available in one place online somewhere else, please tell me ASAP. I couldn't find it (it was hard enough to piece together what I found ).

If you could find a way to avoid running into several Signs of the Future autos when opening boxes, 2005 Bowman Draft is the best. Ryan Zimmerman, Ryan Braun, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jered Weaver, Stephen Drew, etc.

i remember getting a 2009 Bowman Chrome Refractor Auto of Jay Austin from 2009 Bowman as a redemption, not sure if he had live and redemption. same with Jake McGee from 2008 Bowman Chrome. Not sure if this helps

i remember getting a 2009 Bowman Chrome Refractor Auto of Jay Austin from 2009 Bowman as a redemption, not sure if he had live and redemption. same with Jake McGee from 2008 Bowman Chrome. Not sure if this helps

I have opened quite a bit of 2009 Bowman as of late and believe that I pulled a Jay Austin chrome base auto (live, not 100% on that though the more that I think about it). I will put a note in the list to say that he may have some variations live and some via redemption until we have further confirmation.

Yes, I used it as a way to double check card numbers and player names.

I found it especially helpful for 2008 Bowman Draft because the auto checklist released by Topps does not match very well with what wound up being in the product (unless there are a lot more autos out there that neither of us are aware of, beyond BDPP128).

Yes! Confirmed via eBay. Also, the redemption is still good until 08/31/12

I updated the 2009 post.

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Originally Posted by Tyler

Once this is complete it should be posted to baseballcardpedia.com for all to see!

Nice work so far

Thanks! I don't think I've used baseballcardpedia before, but any site trying to accomplish something like this is definitely better than where we are today with bits and pieces of info scattered all over the place.